...but I wouldn't say I love all music. The same is hard to say about women as they don't come in genres. But there are many women who I have feelings for, and I love each in a variety of definitions of love. No, there are some women I don't even like very much. So I think you and your professor might rethink this.
Robert Bly once told us that we could love a lot of women but only have just one. I still don't understand what he saw as the depth or profundity of that observation, but he apparently thought it was an enlightened insight. I thought it was nonsense. Same with this.Is that correct?
Does it hold for women?
One of my very smartest professors told me that one day... At the time it pissed me off because I was crazy into all music at that point in my life... Now, I think of myself as liking just two types (caveat: there are exceptions for every genre).
The same is true with respect to my sexual tastes in appearance: when I was younger I dug them all, now I have a physical type.
Do I like women more now? Is my enjoyment "better"? Worse?
The forest of hobbits wonders if you have any thoughts?
I think the lesson (s)he was trying to teach is that one can not profess to love all genres of a thing (music, art, food, women, etc.) because to love something is to get to know it intimately, and that is impossible unless you limit your focus.
But what he considers love or like or whatever is subjective, and besides it is metaphysically absurd for the professor to claim to know what another likes or loves.
Just professors being professors.
and in the spirit of that Professor, I can say that I would truly love to get to know Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless intimately. It'll never happen of course, but I do love her music.
SMH at metaphysical absurdity.
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having thought about it for a while now, I think she was trying to make the point that connoisseurship or whatevs entails a negative taste as well as a positive taste... So, a discriminating ear is one that senses what it doesn't like as much as what it does like. And, if there is no sense of dislike there is no true discriminating taste...
I disagree with the metaphysical absurdity angle. She was not saying I didn't like this or that specific thing... She was saying that a certain skill requires a certain thing and if one doesn't have that thing, one cannot have that skill..
to a well rounded personality.Understanding other cultures and enjoy the best of any type will open your mind. This from an Atl rednecck who recently saw Robin Trower- Jazz at the arts - Bad Religion - not at the same time. cheers. Turn it up. How about Led Zeppelin turned down some $500 million plus to get back together.
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...but I wouldn't say I love all music. The same is hard to say about women as they don't come in genres. But there are many women who I have feelings for, and I love each in a variety of definitions of love. No, there are some women I don't even like very much. So I think you and your professor might rethink this.
Robert Bly once told us that we could love a lot of women but only have just one. I still don't understand what he saw as the depth or profundity of that observation, but he apparently thought it was an enlightened insight. I thought it was nonsense.
Same with this.
Do you consider yourself knowledgeable about music? Are there any genres that you don't like? Aren't there any composers that you don't like? Isn't there one genre that you particularly identify with?
I know a good deal about literature and to be honest, most all of it leaves me unaffected at this point. I appreciate the technique and the effort etc but it doesn't speak to me... That doesn't mean that if I looked I couldn't find an example from every genre that I liked...
And on the flip side, that which I like I am almost overwhelmed by....